Dr Rebecca Hill is Genetics Editor at the Progress Educational Trust (PET) and at its free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. Together with her fellow BioNews editor Antony Blackburn-Starza and James Brooks, and PET's Founding Chair of Trustees Professor Marcus Pembrey, she runs the BioNews internship scheme which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. She is also a freelance journalist specialising in science, and has written for the Guardian and Times newspapers, the journal Nature, New Scientist magazine's CultureLab, Research Fortnight, and the Science and Development Network. She is cofounder of Science Brainwaves (part of the British Science Association), and she has been a judge at the National Science and Engineering Competition at the Big Bang Young Scientists and Engineers Fair.

Previously, Rebecca studied Biochemistry and Genetics at the University of Sheffield, where she went on to obtain a PhD in Structural and Molecular Biology, and where her research focused on producing a system to purify and analyse groups of proteins in baker's yeast. She also has an MA in Science Journalism from City University London, and she has a particular interest in audio production, having produced audio packages for the Guardian's Science Weekly podcast. She has interned at the Science Media Centre and Sense About Science, and she has been a pie taster on the Pie Panel at Holland's Pies. She tweets as @BekiHill

Dr Rebecca Hill
At the Progress Educational Trust event Genetic Medalling
Photograph by Lahiru Dayananda